Kara Visits Sundance: MySpace, Main Street and Our Very Own Celeb Tour Guide
While at the Sundance Film Festival, I took a little tour of Park City, Utah, visiting with Chris DeWolfe and Dani Dudeck of MySpace and Sundance’s digital guru Ian Calderon and trudging up Main Street...
View ArticleKara Visits Sundance and Interviews Hurley, Hastings and Kilar
Here’s a longish video BoomTown did over the weekend at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the famous annual independent film gathering now taking place in Park City, Utah. I was there to moderate a...
View ArticleA Long Weekend's Journey Into (D7) Flight!
Incredibly, the seventh D: All Things Digital conference begins tomorrow night, after a year of preparation, as we raced to the finish line this past weekend. Here’s a BoomTown video I did over the...
View ArticleWhat's Really Behind the Rupe-a-Dope With Google and Microsoft? Here Are Five...
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. There certainly is a lot of noisy swirl of late around the escalating fight between Google and some traditional media companies over content...
View ArticleBoomTown Heads to Sundance Film Festival in the Fifth Annual Meet-the-Geeks...
Today, BoomTown is loading the wife and kids, along with mom, into our tricked-out All Things Digital Winnebago and heading to Park City, Utah, for the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Now, what I know...
View ArticlePlease Enjoy "Sneaky Gays" From "Glee"–As BoomTown Sneaks Away for the Week
In the interests of not keeling over from blogging exhaustion–one of my sons actually just called me a raccoon, due to the black circles under my eyes–BoomTown is taking a week off to, well, sleep....
View ArticleMySpace Should Be Glee-ful About Hit Series Online Auditions (Plus Celebrity...
The television hit, “Glee,” is one of News Corp.’s crown jewels of late, while its MySpace social networking site has struggled painfully to regain its once-hot momentum. Now MySpace is getting the...
View ArticleAlready an iPhone 4 Spoof–With Jane Lynch and Kassem G
Here’s a very funny iPhone 4 spoof by take180.com’s Electric Spoofaloo that just went up on the Web. The new version of the popular Apple (AAPL) smartphone was just unveiled today by CEO Steve Jobs at...
View ArticleViral Video: Bieber Yourself–There's an iPhone 4 App for That!
NBC’s “Late Night” television talk show host Jimmy Fallon is pretty geeky, which is why he tried this sketch about new apps for the new Apple iPhone 4. Some are funnier than others, but BoomTown liked...
View ArticleHere's the New OK Go Video You're Supposed to Love
Everyone likes OK Go’s videos. Not as many people buy the band’s music, which is one of the reasons it’s now working without a label*. In any case, here’s “White Knuckles,” the newest one, which has...
View ArticleJane Lynch of "Glee" Makes a Surprise Appearance at D9 (Video)
Jane Lynch, the Emmy Award-winning star of the Fox show “Glee,” stood in for our mutual boss Rupert Murdoch to kick off D9 today. Lynch, in a three-minute fictional stint as the acting CEO of News...
View ArticleViral Video: D9 Acting CEO Jane Lynch on the "R-Word"
“Glee” star Jane Lynch opened the ninth D: All Things Digital conference last week in a terrific bit of stand-up, posing as the acting CEO of News Corp. and making all kinds of comical proclamations....
View ArticleUsing Fox's New Web TV Plan Isn't as Hard as Being Waterboarded
The premise of “TV Everywhere” programs are that they reward pay TV subscribers by giving them access to their programs on the Web (or the iPad, or whatever). And they do! But they also require...
View ArticleViral Video: ATD CEO Jane Lynch Is NOT Ellen DeGeneres
This is a very funny promo for the upcoming Emmy Awards, the annual television fest which is being hosted in September by “Glee” star Jane Lynch. Lynch, as you recall, declared herself the acting CEO...
View ArticleViral Videos: Emmy Spoofs and Preshow Funning
The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards for television excellence are broadcast tonight starting at 5 pm PT, so here are some of the better preshow videos to enjoy. I particularly enjoy the naughty one up top...
View ArticleMissed the Emmys (and "Mad Men" + Jane Lynch)? YouTube Has You Covered. (Video)
Normally after a big televised live event, like the Oscars or MTV’s Video Music Awards, I can tell you what the Internet thinks was most interesting about said event. And usually I can provide a...
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